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might not look like every other enthusiests, but it does look like any other stock E30. if i lived in the US id be importing chrome euros, i dont think ive seen a US car with them. Its your choice though. DBs dont do wonders for the E30s shape and look like the afterthought they are imo

Euro bumpers is where it's at, but until I get them for a reasonable price, I'll stick with my DB's.

Update:

Well, I found the perfect wheels!

15mm offset all around...

3/4" spacers on the rear...

Think I will do 15mm offset in the front, zero rear, these rubbed a bit on the rear with 3/4" spacers (19mm)

Now I have to either talk my buddy out of these we tested with (and get spacers), or buy them for myself

Glad the shadow trim never got painted, like the way it looks with the polished lip on the wheels. If the shadow trim stays shiney, perhaps the polishing the big-arse bumpers might make more of a statement?

there is no statement you can make with diving boards, there is nothing unique about them. EVERY e30 from 84-88 in the US had them. you can polish them, paint them black, body color, tuck them .. whatever you want. its been done thousands of times .. literally.

from the looks of it both you and your wife need to take driving lessons.

why did you buy coils and leave the car at a level thats higher then non-adjustable suspension ?

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if i lived in the US id be importing chrome euros, i dont think ive seen a US car with them.

finding good condition chrome euros is like finding gold .. every set we get here is pretty destroyed and needs to be re-chromed or painted. there is a decent amount of US cars with euros. you just might not think those cars are from the US. its cheaper to get them from the dealer new .. at around $800

there is no statement you can make with diving boards, there is nothing unique about them. EVERY e30 from 84-88 in the US had them. you can polish them, paint them black, body color, tuck them .. whatever you want. its been done thousands of times .. literally.

from the looks of it both you and your wife need to take driving lessons.

why did you buy coils and leave the car at a level thats higher then non-adjustable suspension ?

finding good condition chrome euros is like finding gold .. every set we get here is pretty destroyed and needs to be re-chromed or painted. there is a decent amount of US cars with euros. you just might not think those cars are from the US. its cheaper to get them from the dealer new .. at around $800

What?

Have you seriously read the thread, or jumped to the last post?

My center of rim to apex of fender is 12" all the way round, go measure yours (remember my car has high arches)

there is no statement you can make with diving boards, there is nothing unique about them. EVERY e30 from 84-88 in the US had them. you can polish them, paint them black, body color, tuck them .. whatever you want. its been done thousands of times .. literally.

from the looks of it both you and your wife need to take driving lessons.

why did you buy coils and leave the car at a level thats higher then non-adjustable suspension ?

OK, so all this has been done to the DB bumpers EXCEPT!!!: Leave them alone

Go ahead and make me feel insignificant on the internet, but I am the one who is fixing the timing belt slippage/breakage on cars from owners who don't know the difference between an m20b27 and an m20b25, or an '885 head or a '200 head, I have just collected the 6th stock camshaft from an m20b25 and will be sending them over to my grinder for modification. I am just the guy that sits back and watches 'yall, and just so happens to own a flow bench, powdercoating equipment, ceramic coating equipment, chamber-measurement devices, lift, sandblaster, 300 amp welder etc etc etc. The Mazda was the 7th turbo kit built in my place, and the fastest small-displacement engine just so happens to be a 12 second 1994 Chevy Corsica who also pulls a 2.2 60' while still managing a 113mph (he was turbo kit #4).

You know what? You are right, I have no idea what's going on! Maybe I should take my Zender apron, stock valence and the coil-overs fabricated in my shop, and go elsewhere.

OK, so all this has been done to the DB bumpers EXCEPT!!!: Leave them alone

leaving them alone would be more common then ANY of the above mentioned routes.

and naming tools/equipment on the internet is on par with telling everyone you knocked out Brock Lesnar.

if you owned all this stuff and are flowin in the dough .. you wouldnt have thrown on taurus skirts and considered buying the cheapest fake split rims ever made. you'd be considering much better mods.

when your in an e30 section of a BMW forum your e30 is what you bring to the table. you could own 4 planes, 6 helicopters, be Bill Gates rich and have a Jay Leno sized/filled garage .. and it doesnt matter if you post up a car that looks like a community college student is building.

leaving them alone would be more common then ANY of the above mentioned routes.

and naming tools/equipment on the internet is on par with telling everyone you knocked out Brock Lesnar.

if you owned all this stuff and are flowin in the dough .. you wouldnt have thrown on taurus skirts and considered buying the cheapest fake split rims ever made. you'd be considering much better mods.

when your in an e30 section of a BMW forum your e30 is what you bring to the table. you could own 4 planes, 6 helicopters, be Bill Gates rich and have a Jay Leno sized/filled garage .. and it doesnt matter if you post up a car that looks like a community college student is building.

You're right. My car sucks, so why you keep looking at it? You came in my thread telling me my wife and I need to learn to drive and that you don't like my car.

And yes, I do own some equipment and no, not raking in the dough - just like any other business owner in this economy. Just trying to keep food on the table for the wife and four children.

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if you owned all this stuff and are flowin in the dough .. you wouldnt have thrown on taurus skirts and considered buying the cheapest fake split rims ever made. you'd be considering much better mods.

IMO I liked the Taurus side skirts the first time I saw it done on E30tech. I would have done them on my 89E30M50 if I kept it. Firebird don't let the kiddos bother ya too much. Haters gonna hate.

Thanks. Watr off a duck's back, if I was modifying the car for someone else, then I would do what THEY wanted, not what I like.

I didn't realize the wheels are that cheap, found them on ebay, but I am doing a HG job for an e30 with an m30 swap in exchange for the wheels and tires. Tried them on the car and liked them, who cares how much I paid/didn't pay for them!

Well, it looks like I am doing the 885 head swap sooner than expected due to a blown HG Was driving home last night and noticed the temp guage was a little high, does it all the time and have to tap the dash for it to go back where the actual temp is, but instead of going to the middle, it went to max! I was actually on my street when it happened, so I pulled in the road in front of the house and smoke was billowing from the hood. The fan belt broke and the battery light didn't light up, so I had no idea. Tried to start it this morning and it's acting like it has no compression - DOH!

Waiting on the tow truck now to have it pulled to my shop and will start the swap. Have to pick up a side-exit water pump, but have a new timing belt, tensioner, HG, fresh i top end, crank sensor, ECU/harness etc, but I will need to get a tach is all. This sucks because I have about 5 885 cams that I was going to send over to my grinder for a re-grind before I did this, but since I have yet another spare 885 head, I will just have to build it with the new cam and swap the head out later - right now I just want to get the car back on the road. The wife drives the Excursion (four kids), so I will have to drive the PT Cruiser in the meantime, it's a pce of crap and doesn't have A/C

I'll take some pics as the swap happens, just don't know how the stroker will act with the long rear gears, guess I'll start looking around for a better ratio sooner than expected. My friend said he would trade his 4.10lsd for my 2.93lsd, but don't think I want to go that high since I do drive on the highway often.

This thread is great for me because it gives me lots of ideas & inspiration, and like you I don't have access to the best stuff (ex. plastic bumpers/euro bumpers, a facelifted car, etc.)

So yeah looking forward to future updates

Thanks!

I have access to enough parts, just like my aluminum bumpers. Only way I will change them is if I come across a deal on some euro bumpers for a reasonable price I'm just frugal, and like shiny bumpers lol.

Would have more done, but if anyone has changed a serp belt on a pro-charged Cobra, you would understand - instead of 15mins, it took me almost 1.5hrs! Had to unbolt the S/C, coolant hoses, coolant tank, and the cold pipes from the charger to get to it Still after 10hrs here at the shop I did the Cobra while my bud swapped out two e30 windscreens (his is cracked, parts car had a good one), then he had enough time to unbolt the mani, intake pipes and valve cover before he had to take off an hr later, as well as getting to a point to pull the head in the morn.

She looks good for having open-heart surgery!!! she's on the best investment I ever made - a $600 used lift!

and my bud "Silence" making a wind diverter for his roof rack (windscreen swap guy)

Well the head gasket is in perfect shape! Don't know why it wouldn't start after adding a little water, but when I was putting it in, I noticed it wasn't coming out of the bleeder. Maybe the t-stat was stuck, but it's getting replaced anyways. Should have put the compression tester on it, but hindsight is 20/20, and if it had started. I would be driving around with a timing belt about to go, so whatever, only bad thing about jumping the gun on the 885 head swap is that I didn't send the cams out to be re-ground